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tptacek on April 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook acquires Instagram

That's my thought too. Instagram has a plausible claim on all mobile photo sharing, and there's a strain of thought that suggests that 80% of the value of Facebook is photo sharing. Instagram might be a bit too much of a free radical for Facebook to let float around the market.

marcamillion on April 9, 2012 [–]

Or even worse...end up in Google, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, or anyone else's hands.

This was purely defense just like YouTube, and Diapers.com & Zappos for Amazon.

Brilliant move all-around.

In a few years, this price will seem like a steal...much like the $1B that Yahoo proposed for FB a few years ago seems laughable now.

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